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The Player Who Wants To Make Extra Money

Unfortunately the poker player who starts out with this idea has absolutely no idea how difficult it is to achieve this.

It can take a long time learning a ten player ring game before a player becomes a break even player.

Probably six months of solid playing is required to take a beginner from continually reloading their bankroll through to never having to do it again.

And that’s if they have the dedication to read the books and study the game. It’s just not easy to do.

Let's run some numbers so that you get an idea of how difficult it actually is to rise up through the limits.

Let's say that you're a solid limit hold 'em player, and your ultimate goal is to reach the $10/$20 tables.

Your average win rate, if you play premium hands and read all of the books you can get your hands on, will be somewhere around two big bets per 100 hands played.

Your original investment was to take out $300 from your savings account and deposit it into a poker site, and you use a fairly standard rule of keeping a 300 big bet bankroll, meaning that you will not move up until you've built up 300 big bets of the next rank among limits.

Your starting capital will let you play at $.50/$1 tables. How many hands will it take you to reach $10/$20, if you can truly sustain a win rate of 2 big bets per 100 hands all the way up?